Bottle-carrier for testers.



No. 742,759. PATENTED 001211903.

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XJO. 742,759. Patented October 27, 1908.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

THEODORE L. VALERIUS, OF FORT ATKINSON, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO CREAMERY PACKAGE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLI- NOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BOTTLE-CARRIER FOR TESTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 742,759, dated October 2'7, 1903. Application filed May 28, 1903. Serial No. 159,126. (No modell) T whom it y concern! the opening of the loops or books by which Beit known that LTHEODORE L.VALERIUS, the bottle-holding cups are attached thereto.

a citizen of the United States, and a resident These weaknesses put a practical limit upon of Fort Atkinson, in the county of Jefierson the rotative speed of the old-style carriers;

5 and State of Wisconsin, have invented a cerand the primary object of my invention is to tain new, useful, and Improved Bottle-Carprovide a bottle-carrier which shall be very 5 5 rier for Testers, of which the following is a cheap, light, and yet strong and durable, so specification. that it may be rotated much more rapidly My invention relates to machines for testwithout damage of breaking.

IO ing milk to determine the percentage of but- Another object of my invention is to proter-fat contained therein; and my invention vide a carrier extremely convenient in use; has special reference to centrifugal milk-testand the particular object of my invention is vers. Apower-actuated centrifugal milk-tester to provide a bottle-carrier that shall be comof the class to which my invention is specially posed wholly of cast and sheet metal parts 15 applicable comprises a large casing that may Y of minimum weight and which may be manube tightlyclosed andabottle-carrierarranged factored and assembled with the least extherein and a steam-turbine or the like for penditure of labor. rotating said carrier at a high speed. Said Another object of my invention is to rebottle-carrier is equipped with a number of duce the number of part-s that have hitherto 2o pendent sockets or cups to hold the testingbeen considered essential to the makeup of bottles and which when the carrier is rotated a bottle-carrier of a centrifugal testing-ma- 7o swing outwardly into a horizontal plane, the chine; and still another object of my invenbottles therein being held into place by cention is to provide bottle-pendants of uniform .trifugal force. The machine is used in carweight and to provide a bottle-carrier where- 25 rying out the well-known Babcock test, which in the bearing or connection between the carconsists in acidulating the milk to be tested rier-wheel or spider and each pendant or botand then subjecting the acidulated milk to tle-cup shall be wider or of greater extent sufficient centrifugal force to cause the sepathan heretofore, with a view to distributing ration of the fatty constituents of the milk the weight and strain of the pendant upon 0 from the heavier milk-serum. Alarge numthe carrier-wheel, and thus increasing the her of samples of milk are tested at the same strength and durability f each connection.

time in such a machine, and as the carrier My invention consists generally in a botcannot easily be kept in balance and as the tle-carrier for centrifugal milk-testing mabottles with their contents are of considerchines which comprises a metal wheel pro- 3 5 able weight the carrier when rapidly rotated vided with a rim or tire that is made up of alis subjected to severe strains that tend to ternate lugged and straight sections in comrend it apart. It is necessary, therefore, that bination with a plurality of bottle pendants the carrier-wheel and all the parts attached or cups swung from said straight sections and thereto going to make up the bottle-carrier each comprising a wide metal yoke and one 0 shall be strong and durable, and consequently or more bottle-holding cups or thimbles.

it is quite the most costly part of a testing- My invention consists, further, in various machine; but testing-machines do not comdetails of construction and in combinations mand high prices, and the tendency among of parts, all as hereinafter described, and parmanufacturers has been to use light cheap ticularly pointed out in the claims.

45 parts, with the result that their machines do The invention will be more readily undernot wear well and breakages are frequent. stood by reference to the accompanying draw- 5 The principal difficulty has arisen from the ings, forming a part of this specification, and spreading and twisting of the parts or memin which bers of the carrier-wheel proper and from Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bottlecarrier embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section thereof, all but two of the pendants being removed from the wheel of the carrier. Fig. 3 is a still further enlarged view of a part or section of the carrier-rim. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a pendant. Fig. 5 is a side view thereof, one of the cups being shown in section; and Fig. 6 is an end View of the pendant.

As shown in the drawings, my novel bottlecarrier comprises a strong metal wheel or ring and a plurality of equally strong bottle-carrying pendants of uniform weight that hang from the periphery or' rim of the wheel and are evenly spaced around the same. For convenience of illustration Ihave indicated the relations and positions of all the pendants by a single pendant in Fig. 1 and two in Fig. 2. It will be understood that all of the spaces upon the wheel are usually occupied by pendants, though a single wheel with a single pendant constitutes a complete operative device for making a milk-test, the presence of means for spinning the wheel being assumed. The carrier-wheel is a single casting, preferably, and'comprises the hub 2, the spokes 3, and the wheel-rim, which last comprises the lugged portions 4 and the straight portions 5. The lugged andstraight portions 4 and 5 together constitute a continuous ring or rim having great strength to resist the outward stretching strains. The straight portions are substantially circular in cross-section and each serves as the pivot or journal shaft for a bottle-carrying pendant. The straight portions of the wheel may and are preferably longer than the lugged portions, which latter serve to separate the pendants uponthe wheel. Each pendant comprises a sheet-metal yoke 6 and two bottle cups or thimbles 7 7, arranged in said yoke. The yoke is made up of the two collars 8 8 and the intermediate and upwardly-extending loop 9,whichis wide enough to fill the space between the two lugs 4 on the wheel and which fits the round straight portion 5 thereof. The parts 8 8 and 9 are formed from a single blank, the ends of the collars being secured by rivets 10. The bending of the blank to form sufficient curve to the sides of the loop 9 to make the yoke very strong, though of slight weight. The cups or thimbles 9 are pressed or spun from sheet metal and are driven or pressed through the collars of the yoke. The form attachment of the thimbles to the yoke is further insured by peening or flanging the edges 7 of the cups over the edges of the collars 8, as shown in Figs. 2, 4, 5, and 6. The cups are preferably provided with drain-holes 7" in their bottoms. It will'be noted that although the lower parts of the yoke are curved the top of the loop 9 is straight and fits perfectly upon the straight portion 5 of the carrier-wheel. The weight of the pendant and of the two bottles which are placed thereinis thus well distributed upon the rim of the carthe collars 8 8 gives {rier-wheel, and the bearing is so extensive that the parts will wear indefinitely.

My bottle-carrier,though composed of parts having small dimensions and which are of little weight, possesses ample strength and is extremely durable. It is also more convenient to use than others, as the pendants may without special care being taken to place, seat, and pivot them upon the wheel, an operation which with other machines requires considerable time. It is well known that a bottle-carrier of the old style can not be rotated at. a speed exceeding one thousand revolutions per minute without danger of disruption. At this speed the separation of the butter-fat in the milk is incomplete, not more than seventy per cent. thereof being shown. As contrasted therewith myinvention admits of fully twice this speed and enables me to secure results that equal those of a gravimetric laboratory test.

As numerous modifications of my invention .Will readily suggest themselves to one skilled in the art, I do not confine my invention to the specific constructions herein shown and described.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a bottle-carrier, for centrifugal milktesting machines, a metal wheel provided with a rim that is made up of alternate logged and straight sections, in combination with a plurality of bottle pendants or cups swung from said straight sections and each comprising a ing cups or thimbles, substantially as described.

2. A bottle-carrier wheel comprising a suitable hub and spokes and an integral, continuous rim provided with straight sections to receive the bottlecarrier cups, substantially as described.

3. The bottle-carrier wheel for testing-machines, comprising a suitable hub and spokes, in combination with a continuous rim having straight sections that are circular in crosssection, substantially as described.

4. The bottle-carrier wheel for testing-machines comprising a suitable hub and spokes, in combination, with a continuous rim having straight sections that are circular in crosssection and said rim being provided with lugs at'the ends of said straight portions, substantially as described.

5. In a bottle-carrier, the combination of the wheel provided with a continuous metal rim, spaced or divided with integral lugs, in combination with a plurality of bottle-pendants, swun'g from the sections of the rim between said lugs, substantially as described.

6. In a bottle-carrier for testing-machines, the combination, of the wheel provided with a rim composed of straight and lugged sections, said straight sections being substanbe easily removed or placed upon the wheel.

wide metal yoke and one or more bottle-holdtially circular in cross-section and the twin.

cups joined by a yoke that is swiveled upon one of said sections, substantially as described.

7. A bottle carrier for testingmachines comprising a Wheel having alternate lugged and straight sections, together forming a solid ring, in combination with a plurality of pendants swung from said straight sections, substantially as described.

8. In a bottle-carrier for testers, a ring, having alternately straight and lugged sections, combined with a plurality of bottlecarrying pendants, each having two ring portions, 8, 8, and a loop 9 integral therewith, each said loop being adapted to fit a straight section on said ring and being of substantially the same length, substantially as described.

9. In a pendant, the combination of cups for holding bottles, having the flanged edges or rims 7', with a loop, 9, having integral rings 8 joined by rivets 10, said rings rigidly inclosing said cups, substantially as described.

10. In a pendant for testing-machines, in

combination, the cups or thimbles 7, the rings 8, and the loop 9, integral with said rings, substantially as described.

11. A pendant for testing-machines, comprising one or more cups, a strap surrounding each cup, and a suspension-loop integral with said straps, said straps and loop being made from a single piece of sheet metal, substantially as described.

12. A bottle-carrier for testers, comprising a ring having alternately straight and logged sections, in combination with a plurality of bottle carrying pendants, from a straight section of said ring by a sheetmetal yoke of substantially the same width as said straight section, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 21st day of May, 1903, at Chicago, Illinois, in the presence of two witnesses.

THEODORE L. VALERIUS.

Witnesses:

F. J. MAGNISH, C. G. HAWLEY.

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